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Monday, 20 October 2014

An Outline of Comprehensive Plan for Performance Improvement in Public Prosecution Department

We have already seen in
the article “KPIs for Public Prosecution
Department” that standardized and quantifiable parameters are required to
assess uniformly performance of the prosecutors so that improved service delivery, effective
career planning, transparency and appropriate decision making may be inducted
in the administrative set up. These key performance indicators, actually, may
be made a basis of a comprehensive plan for performance improvement in Public Prosecution Department.

On the basis of these
KPIs, such a performance assessment and performance improvement system may be
devised which, not only, would identify deficiencies in the performance of
prosecutors, but also undertake necessary
measures to remove such deficiencies through administrative measures andtraining programmes aiming at removing such
deficiencies. For the purpose, data of criminal cases in terms of each stage of
prosecution(e.g. investigation level; remand
level; evidence level; bail level; argumentation level etc.)would be collected. In this way data relating
to prosecution timeline would be available and the department would be enabled
to analyze performance of prosecutors and the causes of delay at each stage of
prosecution and to remove such causes through administrative measures and
training programs, if necessary.

The proposed
performance assessment and performance improvement system may also fix
benchmarks of performance and fix performance targets for prosecutors, keeping
in view such performance benchmarks so that service delivery may be
improved.Moreover, promotion prospects
of prosecutors would also be linked with their performance viz a viz fixed
performance benchmarks so that it may be ensured that only higher performance
is rewarded. In this way it would be ensured that only the prosecutors showing
higher performance are promoted. In other words, the higher we go, the better
performing stuff would be found in the Prosecution Department. Such a scenario also
warrants attractive salary packages to be offered to the prosecutors so that
better talent may be retained in the department. In short, the objectives of proposed KPIs may be summarized as given below: 1. To induct a standardized procedure of inspection and reporting for performance assessment uniformly;2. To link inspection reporting systems with standardized assessment of training needs;3. To link reporting system with structuring proper training programs;4. To link inspection reporting system with standardized procedure of inquiry initiation;5. To link inspection reporting system with progressive performance improvement system through assigning performance targets;6. To link reporting system with career planning and promotion policy;7. To make inspection reporting system a tool for taking appropriate policy decisions.